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| balessi Newbie Brazil Joined 5089 days ago 8 posts - 14 votes Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: Mandarin, Sanskrit, Ancient Greek, German | Message 25 of 32 19 December 2010 at 3:39am | IP Logged | |||||
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 Mae Trilingual Octoglot Pro Member Germany Joined 4991 days ago 299 posts - 499 votes  Speaks: German*, SpanishC2*, Swiss-German*, FrenchC2, EnglishC2, ItalianB2, Dutch, Portuguese Studies: Russian, Swedish Personal Language Map | Message 26 of 32 16 August 2012 at 1:50pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I just came across this article again, while cleaning up my bookmark list.
The article includes Heine's language list: Student, 22, kann 35 Sprachen Does anyone know if he ever appeared on YT or FB or any other platform? It would be interesting to learn about his methods... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6703 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 27 of 32 17 August 2012 at 11:22am | IP Logged | |||||
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I did a couple of Google searches (in English and German) in the hope of finding new information about him, but didn't find anything that referred to his current whereabouts - the comments were fairly repetitive, and everything I found referred to the information that appeared about him in 2008. Maybe he has just decided to stay out of the limelight, but this also means that it has little purpose to speculate about his methods or his level in those 35 languages.
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| Kronos Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5261 days ago 186 posts - 452 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 28 of 32 24 November 2013 at 12:45am | IP Logged | |||||
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2012 Interview with Sebastian Heine, in German, including a list of the languages he has been studying so far.
65 Sprachen mit 27 Jahren 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Lykeio Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4244 days ago 120 posts - 357 votes | Message 29 of 32 24 November 2013 at 12:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I should point out, before I say anything else, that I'm pretty sure he speaks more
languages than I. Good for him, that being said: I'm always surprised when Philologists add old languages to their list of spoken languages, I've always had the impression that it's just not...done, even for languages I'm very fluent in like Sanskrit, Latin, Greek and so on. As someone with a firm philological background, I'm automatically wary of the languages many of my colleagues might claim. Knowing a language enough to pass an exam or work with it doesn't equal knowing it. I've read extensively in Hittite, I don't *know* it. In particular I'm very very sceptical of claims made from those from German universities. I've known several such philologists and....well the reality never matches the claim to the point where it's a bit of a joke now in Indo-European studies. Going over the list at the end of an interview, it really seems very silly. I can spot Old Persian on that list, really! there's not enough on it to even say one *knows* it. I should know, I've worked with quite a few experts and know all the easily available material. We don't even have enough to fully reconstruct morphology...and a standing lexicon of...400 or so words? That being said I'm not saying he's not impressive, anyone who can handle Caucasian and Dravidian language must be. Just...be reasonable. I've only flicked through the interview so all this stuff might be explained and put reasonably. Regardless, I find the list odd. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kronos Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5261 days ago 186 posts - 452 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 30 of 32 24 November 2013 at 2:21pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I just saw that he has a profile at the University of Bonn. You can find a more detailed list of his languages and the level to which he knows each of them there under the flag "Language Abilities".
Profile of Dr. Sebastian Kurt Heine The profile has also other information on his research activities, field work, etc. It looks a bit weird that some of the profiles in this department, including Heine's, are in English only, given that this is a German university, the heading is "Islamwissenschaft", and Heine is himself German. Whereas some other profils, including staff of obvious Persian origin are in German on the other hand. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4521 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 31 of 32 24 November 2013 at 4:10pm | IP Logged | |||||
It's not uncommon to generalize and say 'ich kann ...' or 'ich kenne ...' a particular language in German when we actually mean 'I'm familiar with ...'. It's just a way to indicate that you have some knowledge in that language, not that you are completely fluent. You could view it as an idiomatic expression. There usually is no need to go into details, because the majority of people we speak to are no language enthusiasts and couldn't care less about *how* well you know the language. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6703 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 32 of 32 25 November 2013 at 2:37pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I have looked at the language list at the homepage of the university of Boon, and it specifies neatly that some languages are fluent, while others (some 22) are "read only", and a number of old and presumably insufficiently attested languages are summarily listed as languages which he only has "studied". Quite honestly, I think this list is about as detailed as you could expect - especially if he has active skills in all the languages which aren't marked as read only. Edited by Iversen on 25 November 2013 at 2:48pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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